Blaise Pascal on All that There Is to Be Known

Blaise Pascal All That There Is to Be Known

“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”–Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal’s earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
—Wikipedia contributors, “Blaise Pascal,” Wikipedia, (accessed June 3, 2016).